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Organizational identification
About: Organizational identification is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1988 publications have been published within this topic receiving 97047 citations.
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TL;DR: Empirical support for current identity-based models of organizational identification are provided and their generalizability is expanded to include multiple-identity organizations is expanded.
Abstract: In the field of organizational identity, theory development has far outpaced theory testing. Specifically, several researchers have proposed identity-based models of organizational identification but few have operationalized and tested them. Furthermore, virtually no research has explored how members identify with multiple-identity organizations. This study addresses these gaps and makes three specific contributions to identity theory. First, we operationalize and test a model in which a member's organizational identification is conceptualized in terms of an identity comparison process, i.e., a cognitive comparison between what a member perceives the identity to be and what they think it should be. Second, we extend current thinking by operationalizing organizational identification in terms of multiple and competing identities. Third, as a theory-building exercise, we explore the possibility that a similar identity comparison process operates at the organizational form level of analysis, affecting members' identification with the encompassing form or social institution. We test our model via a survey of members of rural cooperatives--a prototypical "hybrid" identity organizational form, embodying elements of both "business" and "family" identities. Results of the analyses show that organizational identity congruence has a significant effect on member commitment, and form-level identity congruence has significant effects on both cognitive and pragmatic legitimacy, lending support for the use of identity as a multilevel construct. These results provide empirical support for current identity-based models of organizational identification and expand their generalizability to include multiple-identity organizations.
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TL;DR: The authors investigated organizational citizenship behaviours (OCBs) in a sample of 154 school teachers from Victoria, Australia, of whom 101 were in permanent employment and 53 on fixed-term contracts, and found that the contract teachers reported more job insecurity and more OCBs compared to the permanent teachers.
Abstract: This study investigated organizational citizenship behaviours (OCBs) in a sample of 154 school teachers from Victoria, Australia, of whom 101 were in permanent employment and 53 on fixed-term contracts. Participants completed measures of OCBs, job insecurity, organizational commitment, organizational identification, job satisfaction and work values relating to influence, variety and skill utilization. Results showed that the contract teachers reported more job insecurity and more OCBs compared to the permanent teachers. OCBs were positively related to perceived job insecurity and negatively related to opportunities to satisfy influence and skillutilization work values for the contract teachers, and positively related to organizational commitment, organizational identification and to opportunities to satisfy variety and skill-utilization work values for the permanent teachers. Results were discussed in relation to the different functions that OCBs were assumed to serve for both groups of teachers and the possibility of conceptualizing OCBs using a motivational analysis that takes account of expectations and goal structures.
577 citations
01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative saliency of multiple identities in organizational contexts is discussed, and the role of shared social identity in Translating a leader's vision into Follower's action is discussed.
Abstract: M.A. Hogg, D.J. Terry, Social Identity Theory and Organizational Processes. M.G. Pratt, Social Identity Dynamics in Modern Organizations: An Organizational Psychology/Organizational Behavior Perspective. B.E. Ashforth, S.A. Johnson, Which Hat to Wear?: The Relative Salience of Multiple Identities in Organizational Contexts. S. Brickson, M.B. Brewer, Identity Orientation and Intergroup Relations in Organizations. M. Hewstone, R. Martin, C. Hammer-Hewstone, R. Crisp, A. Voci, Majority-minority Relations in Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities. R. Moreland, J. Levine, J. McMinn, Self-categorization and Work Group Socialization. N. Ellemers, Social Identity, Commitment, and Work Behavior. C. Bartel, J. Dutton, Ambiguous Organizational Memberships: Constructing Organizational Identities in Interactions with Others. D. Abrams, G. Randsley de Moura, Organizational Identification: Psychological Anchorage and Turnover. T. Tyler, Cooperation in Organizations: A Social Identity Perspective. R.M. Kramer, Identity and Trust in Organizations: One Anatomy of a Productive but Problematic Relation. J.T. Jost, K.D. Elsbach, How Status and Power Differences Erode Personal and Social Identities at Work: A System Justification Critique of Organizational Applications of Social Identity Theory. M.A. Hogg, Social Identification, Group Prototypicality, and Emergent Leadership. S.A. Haslam, M.J. Platow, Your Wish is Our Command: The Role of Shared Social Identity in Translating a Leader's Vision into Follower's Action. D.J. Terry, Intergroup Relations and Organizational Mergers. D. van Knippenberg, E. van Leeuwen, Organizational Identity after a Merger: Sense of Continuity as the Key to Post-merger Identification. S. Gaertner, B. Bachman, J. Dovidio, B. Banker, Corporate Mergers and Stepfamily Marriages: Identity, Harmony, and Commitment.
574 citations
TL;DR: The results from 2 field studies support the interaction effect and show that individuals who strongly identify with their organization are more likely to engage in UPB when they hold strong positive reciprocity beliefs.
Abstract: We examined the relationship between organizational identification and unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB)—unethical behaviors conducted by employees to potentially benefit the organization. We predicted that organizational identification would be positively related to UPB and that positive reciprocity beliefs would moderate and strengthen this relationship. The results from 2 field studies support the interaction effect and show that individuals who strongly identify with their organization are more likely to engage in UPB when they hold strong positive reciprocity beliefs. Given the nature of reciprocity, our findings may suggest that highly identified employees who hold strong reciprocity beliefs may conduct UPB with an anticipation of a future reward from their organization. Theoretical and managerial implications of our results for understanding unethical behaviors are discussed.
548 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that the relationship between identification and turnover will be mediated by job satisfaction as the more specific evaluation of one's task and working conditions, which in turn predicts turnover intentions.
Abstract: The social identity approach is a powerful theoretical framework for the understanding of individuals' behaviour. The main argument is that individuals think and act on behalf of the group they belong to because this group membership adds to their social identity, which partly determines one's self-esteem. In the organizational world, social identity and self-categorization theories state that a strong organizational identification is associated with low turnover intentions. Because identification is the more general perception of shared fate between employee and organization, we propose that the relationship between identification and turnover will be mediated by job satisfaction as the more specific evaluation of one's task and working conditions. In four samples we found organizational identification feeding into job satisfaction, which in turn predicts turnover intentions.
545 citations